Over the weekend...

We went to Richland Saturday morning for Caleb's grandma's memorial. It was a very nice ceremony and his mom did a great job putting it all together so quickly. It's now Sunday evening and we are heading for the pass... Hope it's not too bad but we have our chains if we need them!

Out like a light.

I've been very tired this past week... The other night I laid beside Callie for a minute and Caleb caught me fast asleep minutes later :)  I'm surprised there was room with all of the stuffed animals she puts on her bed every night!

Change of plans...

We originally were going to build a single level house similar to one we had seen by the same builder... I found the picture below (on Pinterest, of course!) to show him an example of the wood shake siding we wanted - to give it a beachy feel - and he suggested just modeling our house after the picture.  We love the house in the picture and actually preferred a two-story so we are very excited.  With exception of the shudders, our house should look pretty close - even down to the ocean  blue door :)  (The front will have the shake siding but the rest of the house won't... we just can't afford it, but the builder still thinks it will look great.)

Our favorite part is that the deck on the upper level will have an unobstructed view of the ocean.

Our dream in the future is to have this cute little guest quarters in the back of the house :)

Over the weekend (and some photos)...

We didn't do a whole heck of a lot!  I didn't feel well Sunday and actually took a little nap midday, which I never do!

Saturday night we did go over to our friends the Harrell's for a delish dinner - Julie is a really good cook and hostess.  Plus they have three girls that Callie loves playing with!

And speaking of Julie, she is also a very talented photographer.  She snapped a few photos of us later in the fall and I'm just finally getting around to sharing them.  You can see her work on her website:  julieharrell.com.  I have always been impressed with her and am so happy to have some wonderful pictures of Callie!  And speaking of Callie... she cried for about 99 percent of the time we were outside!  It was freezing out and I did make her wear a summer dress... so I guess it wasn't completely unjustified :)

A couple random things...

Caleb's baby blanket - Gallie's new favorite "cuddle blank."

Homemade biscuits - Gallie's all time favorite food in the whole entire world... with butter, of course :)

We have fun dinner plans tomorrow night but otherwise plan to have a very relaxing weekend!

Betty Cable

Caleb's grandma Betty passed away yesterday.  She suffered a stroke over the summer and never really recovered.  She was 88 years old.

Caleb went to Richland to see her again last weekend with his mom as the doctor said she didn't have much time left.  We are very thankful we took the time to visit her in the fall.  Callie had only met them one time before but was too little to remember - so I think that trip was really important.  We will all travel over there again next week for the memorial.

Our beach house.

This is where our new house is going to be!  We are actually moving to Birch Bay (a little beach town 20 min. north of Bellingham).  At first we didn't really consider this area because of the drive... but, the more we thought about living close to the beach and in a more peaceful area we loved it.  We are only about a 5 minute walk from the beach and a state park - you can see the water from our property if you squint, stand on your toes, and look really hard through the trees :)  We both work in town and will have to drive in everyday anyway so we will still send Gallie to the same school.  We hope to move by the end of April!

I really won't talk about every little update on the house, but I will try to post progress about once a month :)